Gaia's web : how digital environmentalism can combat climate change, restore biodiversity, cultivate empathy, and regenerate the Earth / Karen Bakker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bakker, Karen J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism--Effect of technological innovations on.

Environmentalism.

Information society--Environmental aspects.

Information society.

Information technology--Environmental aspects.

Information technology.

Green technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2024.

Summary:

"This book explores how tools of the Digital Age might be mobilized to solve our most pressing environmental challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss. It argues that digital technology might accelerate environmental sustainability and that engaging with environmental issues may transform Big Tech for the better, if the sector successfully addresses spiraling energy use, pollution, privacy and surveillance issues"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Wiring Gaia : parable of tree and stone

The algorithmic ocean : parable of the digital poacher

Facebook for wildllife : parable of the ice ways

Hacking climate : parable of the robot miner

A digital green new deal

A parliament of earthlings : parable of terra0

On the blockchain, no one knows youre a forest : parable of Biidaaban

Empathy machines : parable of mothbot

Biocyborg kin : parable of the endless forms

When all the computers melt into air : parable of the long now.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262377683

0262377683

9780262377690

0262377691

OCLC:

1404059882